Kilton, North Yorkshire
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 Ruins of the 13th century Kilton Castle | |
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Kilton is a village in the civil parish of Lockwood, in the borough of Redcar and Cleveland, in the ceremonial county of North Yorkshire, England.[1]
History
[edit]The village is recorded in the Domesday Book as Chiltune,[2] which is possibly derived from a combination of Old Norse and Old English of "narrow-valley farm/settlement' or a Scandinavianised form of cilda-tun, 'children's farm/settlement."[3] The village is to the west of Kilton Beck Valley, a narrow cut that carries the Kilton Beck to the sea at Skinningrove.[4] The remains of Kilton Castle lie to the south east and the village is 7 miles (11 km) east of Guisborough and 1.5 miles (2.4 km) south of Brotton.[5]
In the 13th century, Kilton Castle was the base of the rebel Will Wither.[6]
Kilton was formerly a township in the parish of Brotton,[7] in 1866 Kilton became a separate civil parish,[8] on 1 April 1974 the parish was abolished.[9] In 1951 the parish had a population of 250.[10]
References
[edit]- ^ Ordnance Survey: Landranger map sheet 94 Whitby & Esk Dale (Robin Hood’s Bay) (Map). Ordnance Survey. 2012. ISBN 9780319228999.
- ^ "Kilton | Domesday Book". opendomesday.org. Retrieved 22 December 2019.
- ^ Ekwall, Eilert (1960). The concise Oxford dictionary of English place-names (4 ed.). Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. 276. ISBN 0-19-869103-3.
- ^ "Kilton Beck from Middle Gill Beck to North Sea". environment.data.gov.uk. Retrieved 22 December 2019.
- ^ "Genuki: Brotton, Yorkshire (North Riding)". www.genuki.org.uk. Retrieved 22 December 2019.
- ^ "Medieval Teesside" (PDF). Tees Archaeology. 11 June 2012. Retrieved 10 August 2015.
- ^ "History of Kilton, in Redcar and Cleveland and North Riding". A Vision of Britain through Time. Retrieved 1 December 2023.
- ^ "Relationships and changes Kilton Tn/CP through time". A Vision of Britain through Time. Retrieved 1 December 2023.
- ^ "Cleveland Registration District". UKBMD. Retrieved 1 December 2023.
- ^ "Population statistics Kilton Tn/CP through time". A Vision of Britain through Time. Retrieved 1 December 2023.
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